The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power with Guest Patricia O'Gorman, Ph.D.

June 10, 2013

Hosted by Mary Woods

Episode Description

Making others happy seems to be a women’s role but the price paid is destructive, self-sabotaging ‘girly thoughts’ that arise wreaking havoc on her success -- personally and professionally. Noted psychologist and author Dr. Patricia O’Gorman coined these ‘girly thoughts’ in her latest book, The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power. The Resilient Woman is a guide for women to uncover their inner power, providing tools to help women find their own best solutions and stop their girly thoughts that tell them who they are, how they should act, ultimately holding them back. Areas include: 1) Discover the resilience patterns established in childhood; 2) Understand issues that are specific to women when dealing with any relationship; 3) Learn to overcome trauma - physical, psychological, and emotional; 4) Discover how to self-motivate by losing the victim mentality; and 5) Understand what resiliency is and is not, and how to achieve it.

One Hour AT A Time

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Recovery, whether it is from substance abuse or a mental illness, or both requires a treatment plan, which in many cases is as effective as treatments for other chronic illnesses. “One Hour AT A Time” will increase awareness about recovery and decrease the discrimination against individuals in the recovery process. Host Mary Woods, will help people understand the recovery of adults and families living with co-occurring substance use disorders and psychotic and/or affective illness over the course of a lifetime. Helping individuals develop the skills and knowledge they need to take personal responsibility for their health and supporting individuals in their efforts to get on with life beyond illness has been Mary’s mission and she now brings that mission to the airwaves.

Mary Woods

Mary is the CEO of WestBridge Community Services. She is also a Registered Nurse and a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor with more than 25 years experience in substance abuse services and community mental health programs. Mary has conducted extensive workshops and trainings with a primary focus in Motivational Interviewing, Stages of Change Theory and Integrated Treatment of Co-occurring Disorders. She is also a contributor to the development of the Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment Practitioners and Clinical Supervisors Workbook and Practice Demonstration Video. Mary was the Chairperson of the NH State Board of Licensing for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Professionals. She has been a member of the NH Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselor’s Association since 1984, and has served as the Northeast Regional Vice President for the NAADAC, the Association of Addiction Professionals, President of NAADAC and is currently past president of NAADAC.